Electrical seal



April 14, 1925. 4

P. H. FAULEN ELECTRICAL SEAL Filed .Nv

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`AT7wPNfK of which receives the cylindrical shank 30: ytacliablyfniiounted `uponsa-id insulating inemof a seal 3l. The seal is detachably held in place by ineans of a serev 32 passing through the extension 27 and threaded into the upper end of the shank 30,V as .shown in Fig. l.

In utilif/,ing` the above device. a v[lat Wafer ot sealing Wax is laid upon the place Where' it is desired to torni the seal. The current is then turned on and-the element 171 becomes heated. Such vheat is conducted to the cap l-.ll which `becomes heated 'tc the required f ieniperature- The instrument .isthen cari'ied over the wafer and the lower sur-aceirsurfafee and alhandleco-axial WithSuch surl. 'l5 -e'if `the .capllfpressed thereon', whereby 15 the Wai; is sotenedw-illhen the Wax. reaches the .propenconsistency the4 instrumenta-1 is shifted and the seal 3l brought to bean upon'.4

the soft Wax thereby imparting the desired impression upen=the latter andfeausing 1t to stick in place,' as-Will=fbeunderstood.

if llfhatal claiin is:

l. lnaeealing derice, the co1nbi=nati-on with aihandle; ot a heating device mounted upon said handle andiinclndinga cylindri-wr cal-shell,r a capepiece intermediate of saidi.

shellfandhandle and closing' the inner end l`oit said shell, an :insulating ineinbensecured to thebottoi'n end of said shell, bolts passf ing through'said-cap-piecm `interim' oit said shell rand 'insulatinganeniber, nnts for saidy iliolts,- Whereb57 said cap-piece, shell andina-1y sulatingl ineniber arel secured to each other;-

said'finsulatingzineinber, an electrical heat,-

ber, electrical teri'i'iinals 'embedded in said insulating inember and terniinatin;` in sockets adapted to Vreceive theterininals of said .heatingA eleinent,.'and .electrical conductors connected with said terminals; said handle and cap-piece being` formed with central alined passages through which said conductors pass.

2. ln a sealing device, the combination oil an electric alfheating ineinberg' includingl an end cap provided Witln' a circular heating faeef; `a` rlateral; extension rigidly :connected .with safid- "heating"iineinber; and a seal mounted: upon f such cextension and having its airiscangu'larly'related' 'to the axis of' the he ating Y'ineinbeiz *3. In"a-sealing'device, the combination Withan electrical vhie/ating,rl member, including a handle at one endya'feircular heating surface Iat the other end, and an'intermediate strnctareto which said handle and heating surfacef'are detachably connected, said intermediate structure including an' element having' a lateral-extension angula'rlyrelated to the axis of the heating` =1"1'1en1ber; of a seal n'lo'unte'dr upon 4said l extension and having` its axisfat right? angles to the lattera 1the end ot' the seal 'being'iirprexiinity to said'circular heating surface. Y

Signed-byine this `15th day of November, 1922.

PERCY H'. FAULEN. 

